Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blundell has advised farmers to "get rid of all Kikuyu or at least never to let a Kikuyu enter the farmhouse after dark. I've been told this was drastic, brutal and unnecessary. But the Mau Mau oath has a terrible binding power. One Kikuyu who had worked on a farm for 25 years went to his bwana. 'I'm leaving,' he said. 'They made me take the Mau Mau oath. This means they may ask me to kill you and I won't want to be in a position where I could obey...
...President Kinsey Robinson of Washington Water Power, Washington's second-biggest private utility, refused to give in. First he turned to American Power & Light, which owned Washington Water Power and which, under the holding companies' "death sentence," had to get rid of its subsidiary. A P & L had made a tentative deal to sell Washington Water Power to the P.U.D.s. But Robinson, who started as a lineman and spent 14 years building his company, fought his bosses' plan. He won the backing of A.P. & L. s biggest stockholders, who persuaded the company to turn down the P.U.D.s...
...Here," the doctor promised as he flicked away the follicle, "we will restore your weakened hair roots, and your hair." "Are you sure?" I asked. "Certainly," he said. "The treatments will clean our the Sibborea, while the $20 home set--he indicated the tricolored array of bottles--will get rid of the germs." "How much for the treatments?" I asked. "Two hundred dollars," he said easily...
Last week the State Department announced that, since the new Administration began, it had rid itself of 21 homosexuals and other bad security risks. In one week, eight sexual deviates and five other security risks had been "separated" from the service. Score since 1947: more than 325 homosexuals fired or forced to resign after the department found them bad risks...
...follow our example and get off our backs. So I just say, let's practice what we preach, where it will do us and our allies some real good. Let's give our friends a fair crack at the American market . . . I believe we ought to get rid of the 10% tariff on automobiles* at once...